Yurii Shturko: The most important thing is that we lost the fight. That's what decided the match

Comments after the match of the 3rd round of the Ukrainian Youth League UPL-2 2026/2027 "Kryvbas" U-21 - "Livyi Bereh" U-21 - 1:5.

Yurii Shturko, coach of FC "Kryvbas" U-21:

- We analyzed the game of "Livyi Bereh". We prepared in the usual mode, everything was good in the training process. But the game itself gave us a lot of information. The most important thing is that we lost the fight. This decided the course of the match. Both the rebounding and all other aspects, you could say so.

It's hard to even compare the first half with the second - they are the same for me, but the second half was even harder physically, for some reason we got tired. We will figure out why we couldn't withstand such pressure. As for adjustments during the game, we wanted to refresh the attacking line. Substitutions were made - something also didn't work out a bit, we also lost in the fight. In general, the whole team lost the fight, and because of this, the final result is like this.

Ivan Zadoienko, midfielder of FC Kryvbas U-21:

- We lacked fight, self-confidence and realization of opportunities. We need to work better, train these components and go out to win. At halftime, the coaches said that there is still time, we can make up for it and we need to go forward, to attack, but it didn’t work out. As for the newcomers, everything is fine in our team: everyone communicates, is friendly with each other. Conclusions? We need to work more on defense than on attack - to take away the balls and literally fight on the field.

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